On Oct 18, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Rory Molinari wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems with Palatino sans serif in my documents.
>>
>> Consider the following small file:
>>
>> \usetypescript[palatino][ec]
>> \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt]
>>
>> \starttext
>> \ss Hello world!
>>
>> {\tfa\ss tfa}
>> {\tfb\ss tfb}
>> {\tfc\ss tfc}
>> {\tfd\ss tfd}
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>>
>> On live.contextgarden.net this renders correctly, with sans serif  
>> text
>> and appropriate character sizes.
>>
>> On my local system, though, all the text is serif and at the same
>> size.  There is no size variation with \tfa, \tfb, etc.  If I remove
>> all the \ss commands then the sizing works again.
>>
>> I'm using MacTeX 2008.  Here are my version strings from texexec:
>>
>> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
>> ConTeXt  ver: 2008.04.11 00:07 MKII  fmt: 2008.10.11  int: english/
>> english
>>
>>
>> What is wrong with my installation (or my document)?
>
> Can you attach your log file? Does adding \usetypescriptfile[type- 
> gyr] on
> top of the document help?

Adding that line doesn't change the behavior.  I've attached a copy of  
the log.